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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Don't Blink!
*****UPDATE 3/27/2014: after much soul searching, repeated requests, and another glimpse into copyright law I'VE DECIDED TO MAKE THESE TO ORDER! while i still highly recommend that you make them yourself using my tutorial, this is a way to support the work, and for the crafting (and time) challenged to have their own weeping angel inspired piece!
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greetings readers,
i admit it. i'm a geek. and a proud one at that. i'm also a longtime doctor who fan. i grew up watching the 4th doctor (tom baker) and was never very satisfied with the ones that came after, until the series was revamped in 2005. i've successfully indoctrinated my husband into the whoniverse (we are also huge torchwood fans) and decided to decorate our bathroom with the scariest themes of the whoniverse. the bathroom is a work in progress, but i'll get to posting more about it later, i promise. it occurred to me that one of the most obvious monsters for me to make in particular was a weeping angel barbie. for those not in the know, weeping angels are creatures that appear to be statues of angels with their hands over their eyes (hence the name), but whenever someone (or something) is not looking at them they can move-fast. even blinking can allow them to get you. so here's the "why," now i'll show you the "how."
i cut a wing shape out of craft foam and added details with hot glue.
i discovered that even jointed armed barbies' arms are not in a proper position to cover their eyes so i had to cut and reattach the arms at the elbow. more hot glue.... a high temp gun makes all the difference here. her arms aren't going anywhere.
i also took the time to glue all of her joints so they are solid and attach her to a base- yes, with wooden skewers.
i realize that i'm missing a picture here, but i attached the wings next using high temp hot glue again.
a simple gauze dress was added. the gauze allows for the proper folding and drape (once paint and glue are added) to be indicative of the romanesque statues the weeping angels disguise themselves as. also in the picture below you can see peeking out from behind one of her wings my rendition of the bottle of tears from the torchwood episode "from out of the rain"
then came the problem of her hair. despite barbie's fashion sense, styling her hair any more than ponytail or down is next to impossible. in order to create the carved waves seen in statuary i needed to rely on my trusty glue gun again.
i next used craft glue to settle her dress more, and prepare the piece for priming.
and somehow i didn't get a pic of the piece primed, but just imagine the entire piece white ;) the primer i used is a regular brush on house paint primer (like Kills) you could use a spray one i suppose, but i liked how i could really saturate the dress and make it a solid piece this way.
instead of trying to fake the stone texture myself i decided to use a textured spraypaint. i am quite pleased with the results! i used a "sand" texture instead of the "stone" texture as the flake was much more to scale for the size of the doll.
and here she is in her proper place. i am quite pleased with how well she fits with the small shelf i had lying around. ....and do not worry for me who fans, i am placing a mirror directly opposite her so she will be trapped ;)
thanks for looking!
99 comments:
It's a complex process, but you make it look so easy. And thank you for the Who background.ReplyDelete
Eek! She's so... well... I would say lifelike, but let's go with sneaky-statue-like. ;) Seriously, though, if you hadn't told me this was a barbie underneath that tough stone exterior, I would never have known. She's absolutely stunning. But, seeing as how that last statement *could* be literal, I'm glad you've got her trapped with her own reflection. Because you never know...ReplyDelete
Awesome! :) And "Blink" was oneof the first rebooted Doctor Who episodes I watched, and MAAAAAAN did it freak me out!ReplyDelete
wow! very well done and so creative!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 26, 2011 at 2:28 AM
That is awesome. Bookmarked. Now if I could just find an old Barbie...ReplyDelete
This. Is. Awesome.ReplyDelete
OHHH MY GODDESS!!!! This is without a doubt the COOLEST CRAFT EVER!!!!!!!!! Than you SOOOOO much for posting this....I bow at your genius!!! Thanks....Allons-y!!!ReplyDelete
So AWESOME!! I think i just found my kid's summer craft AN ARMY OF WEEPING ANGELS!!! Thank you, this is great.ReplyDelete
Would you mind sharing what you used to cut through Barbie's arms? I'm trying to make a weeping angel of my own and I know plastic can get very tricky to break through!ReplyDelete
OMG! This is AWESOME. I loved that episode. I can't wait to transform a Barbie into this. She will be placed in the Goddess Room.ReplyDelete
My son's 9th bday is just around the corner and we already play this game at home (after watching it on dvd), so he's going to love this particular creepy statue! You are an inspiration and a wonder for its creation and providing thorough instructions. I appreciate that and you. Thank goodness you reminded me to package a mirror with it!ReplyDelete
Awesome! Please post a link to this amazing post atReplyDelete
(You do have to be a member to post, I believe. If you don't have an LJ, they are free and easy to sign up for!)
I take back all the bad things I ever said about hot glue. You used it well. Nice work!ReplyDelete
You are my hero! MY BF and I were just discussing that we needed a few weeping angels in our yard....and now we can have one in the house!ReplyDelete
You rawk. Thanks for the tutorial. I am going to thrift store a barbie and get to work!
AMAZING!!! Absolutely amazing!ReplyDelete
It is entirely possible you have just helped me come up with Christmas gifts. Thank you for sharing!!ReplyDelete
This is so awesome. I am lost for words. Love it!!!ReplyDelete
what brand and color did you use for the texture spray paint?ReplyDelete
I guess it didn't occur to you that the shelf she is on also poses a threat. Or it did before you placed the mirror opposite.ReplyDelete
WOW!! I love this.. wasn't sure at first, don't know the story. But the journey through and the end result of this was neat... would have never thought about doing this. Thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
Can't wait to make one. Will sit next to Goth Barbie! Thank you so much for the tuut and inspiration. Don't Blink!ReplyDelete
Ah, a kindred spirit! I too grew up discovering Dr. Who through the Tom Baker episodes and had no desire at all to even try the others until the update of the franchise a few years back. Since then I've enjoyed each Dr. and companion and am more emotionally attached to the series than I ever could have thought possible. Blink remains one of my favorite episodes and is a truly terrifying episode of television. Great to watch in the dark!ReplyDelete
This is fantastic! You did an excellent job with it. Very well done.
- AnonymousSeptember 22, 2012 at 10:43 PM
Stumbled across this on pinterest, and must say i used to watch dr who as a child (23 now) same dr as you ma'am. My husband recently yanked me back into the whoniverse recently lol. So when we saw this he begged me to pin it to make it once i get the items needed. :) our toddlers watch it with us now too.ReplyDelete
This is absolutely fabulous. I will never be able to look at another statue the same way now after watching that episode. DON'T BLINK and DON'T LOOK AWAY. Love the hair on her. Must say you nailed it.ReplyDelete
what did you use for the priming? more spray paint or a specific product :) I am itching to do this now LOLReplyDelete
From one Whovian to another...This is awesome! So now, I gotta go find everything I need to make one and sneak it onto my husband's (another Whovian) desk at work! Thank you so much!ReplyDelete
Awesome! I'm gonna try this. I'm making a Dr. Who themed Halloween display and this would fit in perfectly. Thanks!!!ReplyDelete
How did you create the gauze dress? Did you purchase it or sew it? If you sewed it, what pattern did you use? On her back, does the dress go over where the wings meet? Also, what did you use for the base? so excited to create one of these! Thanks.ReplyDeleteReplies
Well, the dress I just sort of winged. I made it, but didn't use a pattern. The wings were attached and the dress goes around them. (its slit in the back). The base is just a wooden plaque I purchased at a craft store and drilled a hole through, attaching with a ton of hot glue. Hope this helps!Delete
Yes it does. Thanks! :)ReplyDelete
So I found this and thought it was so awesome and decided to make it. My neighbor who lives below me is a huge Whovian too, so I made an extra one and left it in front of his door after propping it up on his halloween wreath so when he looked through the peephole it was the first thing he would see with a note attached that said "don't blink."ReplyDelete
I am going to do this a x-mas gifts for all my whovian friends!!! One problem, the barbies. I'll find a way.ReplyDelete
Any image of an angel becomes an angel itself... you have doomed us all!ReplyDelete
Worth it though, good job.Replies
EXACTLY what I was going to post!Delete
What kind of primer did you use? Is it a spray can?ReplyDelete
I do not know who dr. Who is but this is awesome I'm going to attempt to make one .ReplyDelete
As for the barbie I'm going to goodwill to get one I'm sure the have some for cheap :)
gorgeous! my suggestion from years of barbie modifying experience: boil the arms next time. you can even cut the fingers apart and reshape them when you boil them to get expressive hand gestures. like making them hold things, or pointReplyDelete
oh this is fantastic! I use a lot of altered barbies for different pieces. This will help a lot! Thank you!Delete
i forgot - i use round jawed needlenose pliers to make the bends so i don't a) burn my hands or b) leave marks. but you get a much cleaner look and you don't end up with issues i have like the barbie gargoyle whose ALIEN forepaws fell off when the glued joint got bumped and broke off. http://www.catastrophegirl.com/gargoyle.htmDelete
if you do more of this, you may want to know that acetone on a q tip takes her face paint off delightfully well and fabric softener does a great job detangling thrift store overplayed with barbie hair.
OMG This is just the awesome. A friend shared it on Facebook and I am so glad he did.ReplyDelete
I like Franie's idea of holiday gifts. So many Whovians....
I know you can oftern find the cheap Barbies around for just a couple bucks a piece and frequently can find them at garage sales and second hand toy stores. So heading out to get some.
Same question as Chaosinmotion, what primer did you use to stick to the different kinds of plastics?
And, thanks for the boiling tip catatrophegirl.Replies
Thanks so much for commenting! Im glad you like her! Yes, I find all of my Barbies at thrift stores (goodwill, etc)they aren't that hard to find. Around here anyway. To answer the primer question (this has been asked a lot. I should really add it to the post) I just used a regular house paint brush on primer like Kills. It sticks just fine to the plastic and fabric for my purposes. The doll is no longer poseable and not intended for play so it will be fine.Delete
Wow! Just Wow!ReplyDelete
Angels are Cool.
Awesome. And a huge improvement over Barbies in general ...ReplyDelete
great work and good thinking with the mirror ;)ReplyDelete
I'm not a Whovian, but I recently acquired a boyfriend who is. Thankfully, I had an old "Princesses of the World" barbie- the Greek one! I got to skip all the styling and draping. Thank you so much for thinking of this! This took so much strain off of our first Christmas. :)ReplyDelete
Wow...This is Brilliant. Thanks so much for sharing this! Now I will need to visit a thrift store and discretely buy some Barbies, but I'm thinking perhaps Strawberry Shortcake, G.I. Joe or My Little Ponies might add some variety. Maybe I will install these at a local pioneer cemetery, or a funeral home in a manner that appears part of the design.ReplyDelete
(I found your entry via a BoingBoing post.)
This is awesome! I might be trying this out. Thanks for the tutorial!ReplyDelete
Are you on Pinterest? I just pinned this and looked for you. Brilliant!ReplyDelete
I am still in love with Tom Baker, even after all these years and I too got my hubby hooked on 'Who when the new series came out. Yay!ReplyDelete
Your Weeping Angel is stunning! What kind of craft foam are the wings made of and where is it available? I can't wait to make a Angel to keep my Sister of Plenitude Barbie company!ReplyDeleteReplies
Sister of Plentitude Barbie? That sounds fascinating! The craft foam is stuff I found at Michaels I know Joann carries it as well. As would most craft stores I'm sure. The brand I used is "foamies" it comes in sheets. For the wings I got the 1/4" thickness. Its a flexible high density stuff usually used for kids crafts. It comes in a bunch of different colors. Hope this helps!Delete
- AnonymousNovember 13, 2012 at 8:46 PM
Oh, that is just amazing! Well done! (waves to fellow fan of Fourth Doctor)ReplyDelete
what a totally awesome idea!!! I'm so going to do this :)ReplyDelete
Wow. Just... wow. I...ReplyDelete
Just found out about this yesterday. One thing I wish is that you had a picture of the *back* of the statue once finished.ReplyDelete
Also, I now need to go get me some barbies.Replies
I love this idea! Pick up a few "broken" Barbies and Kens from a local thrift store and voila!ReplyDelete
What I'd love to do is to make a stronger, sturdier base. Maybe something as simple as a smaller margarine container or something, filled with sand or rocks. I think they'd make perfect bookends with a strong base.
That's one of the best 'make it' tips since I last watched one on Blue Peter, way back when! ♥ReplyDelete
Mind if i ask how you made the dress and what brand of paint did you use:)ReplyDelete
Amazifying! As with others, I was thinking I'd make some as gifts but I don't know. I'm rather greedy. I'm going to make a sort of army for myself (found a tutorial for Mummified Barbie as well) and I have the display all thought up in my head for it. It will make sure she doesn't take her Un-Dead Crew and do away with me.ReplyDelete
Hey. I love this and thanks for sharing. I was wondering would you be able to upload the templates for the angel wings? As I'm going to try and make my own angel, I've tried to look for wing templates but yet I can't find anything that seems right for my angel.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 29, 2012 at 3:25 AM
Awesome idea! I made one of these for my wife for Christmas, except I used a Polly Pocket doll instead. The arms bent real easy after a brief dip in boiling water. It went along great with the Tardis fairy door that I made her!ReplyDelete
A favorite "monster" from a favorite episode of a favorite series! Very clever, I am impressed! Thanks for sharing : )ReplyDelete
I just wanted to tell you that I made these with three teenage girls today and they turned out amazing! I would recommend using a cheap-dollar general barbie because I used a mattel barbie and it was a bit too heavy and wanted to tip over! Thanks for the inspiration-these would also be cool all painted in white and have glitter on them for a holiday angel! (ofcourse as a Doctor Who fan I will always see it as a weeping angel)ReplyDelete
I am looking to so this with my daughter. I was wondering what type of craft glue did you use to settle the dress? Trying to make a supplies list to go shopping with.ReplyDelete
Thanks! I just finished mine and I love it!ReplyDelete
Maybe you should make multiple in different poses, and sneakily switch them once in a while when there's a whovian around. Might give you some interesting reactions.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 7, 2013 at 6:58 PM
What a great idea! And don't worry about copyright. The idea of a weeping angel statue cannot be copyrighted, only the particular expression of that idea. So you couldn't make an exact copy df an angel actually built by the BBC, but since "weeping angel" is not a copyrighted or trademarked character, you can legally create your own.ReplyDelete
I just watched this episode....I slept under my covers last night for sure. The scariest DW I have ever seen. I can't wait to see them in future episodes (future to me, anyway. I'm working my way up to the seventh season :D)ReplyDelete
So awesome, but i just gave away my old barbies....My sister might give me one of hers....Seriously freaky, the Weeping Angels.
The Angels are my fave doctor who monsters and if I had to die by a doctor who monster it would have to be by them. This is the coolest thing I've seen. Where did you get the dress? And could I make the wings out of cardboard?ReplyDelete
I found you through pinterest and I have to say, with my sister being a Whovian AND her birthday is coming up, I have found the perfect gift for her! Thanks so much for your brilliantly creative weeping angel!ReplyDelete
omggg so cool :DReplyDelete
This is fantastic! Great job, can't wait to make my own!ReplyDelete
Excellent craftsmanship and credit of original work.ReplyDelete
The image of an angel, becomes and angel!ReplyDelete
looks amazing, I will have to try this! :)
This is a really well done project, and a great tutorial! Thanks for posting.ReplyDelete
Have you considered painting the whole thing a flat black, then "dry brushing" the gray on it? I think you'd really like the result.
Wow! I love these!! I actually came across your blog while googling 'are Weeping Angels Copyrighted?' I'm a Whovian and a Cake Decorator, I REALLY want to attempt to design and create a Weeping Angel Signature cake! I'm unsure of the copyrights on images though, and as a Cake Decorator fan art disclaimers don't apply to my work. Do you have any advice?ReplyDelete
Cool figures!ReplyDelete
I was a Tom Baker Who fan ages ago; a fellow collector started me on the new Who series. I've gobbled them up via DVD (yay!). Can't wait to see how the new Doctor works out.
The Weeping Angels are seriously creepy aliens. I hate the way they got at Rory and Amy. (Curse them.) But it would be fun to have a few around Halloween.
I have a Martha Jones, but alas, I missed getting the Character Options 10th Doctor. Do you have any of those figures or any of the Big Chief figures?
Thanks for sharing,
Doctor Who fan AND Playscale Doll/Action Figure Enthusiast
P.S. Check the price for these Weeping Angels!
THIS is absolutely adorable. Thank you for sharing!ReplyDelete
This is so cool!ReplyDelete
That is sooooooo cool,now I must try this too!!!! I am also a major Whovian!ReplyDelete
Do you have a template for the wings and the dress?ReplyDelete
Could i just use concrete instead of spraypaint?ReplyDelete


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Dallas Season 2 Burning Questions Answered: J.R.'s Farewell, Hiccups for Ann and Bobby
Christopher's petition for annulment was rejected! Ann's long-lost daughter hates her guts! Sue Ellen lost the election! It was an eventful return to Dallas on last week's two-hour season premiere. After five months off the air, the Ewing clan & Co. wasted no time answering some of fans' biggest burning questions from the first season finale, and raising some new ones for Season 2 (Mondays at 9/8c on TNT). Although she did her best not to spoil what's to come, we turned to showrunner Cynthia Cidre for answers:
1. Could Elena and John Ross be the real deal? It wasn't a complete surprise to see brokenhearted bad guys John Ross (Josh Henderson) and Rebecca (Julie Gonzalo) hook up in the premiere, but where will their romantic entanglement will lead to? "I think they're very much cut from the same cloth. It's out of convenience and scheming against the same people, having the same enemy and it's also a little bit more than that," Cidre says. "[Their relationship] has some huge ups and downs too because neither is willing to be hurt." But two of those people John Ross and Rebecca are both scheming against are their respective exes, Elena (Jordana Brewster) and Christopher (Jesse Metcalfe), whom they still having feelings for. "People heal, and 15 episodes is a long time. They don't carry the torch forever," Cidre says. "Who [Rebecca] ends up with is fun."
Dallas' Julie Gonzalo on unleashing the real Rebecca: "You can't underestimate her"
2. Can Christopher and Elena make it work? Despite the (many) odds against them, "Christopher and Elena are grounded and stable," Cidre says. However, expect things to get complicated for Elena now that John Ross knows she owes quite a bit of debt to Sue Ellen (Linda Gray). "That will definitely play out in a huge way," Cidre says. "It's something that John Ross can manipulate to get his way, and he will get allies to help him do that."
3. Will Ann be able to get her mojo back? In the season premiere, Ann (Brenda Strong) was elated to learn that her long-lost daughter Emma (Emma Bell) was alive and in Dallas. Too bad her daughter wanted nothing to do with her - which left Ann in a fragile place. "That will change. We knew her as a fighter in Season 1 and we haven't abandoned that," Cidre says. However, there will be "a few hiccups" ahead for her and Bobby (Patrick Duffy). Apparently, their recent marital problems and Emma's presence are "related, and there will be a huge climax before things settle down," Cidre says. "You can't put a story point that way in their lives - of finding a child she hadn't seen in 20 years - and have it not have repercussions."
4. How much of Emma will we see? Cidre was tight-lipped about what kind of interactions Emma will have with the rest of the Ewings, but says Emma's story "will be an integral part" of the Ewing clan. "She is going to have some personality too by the time we're done with Emma Brown," Cidre adds. "There will be a lot of healing, and a lot of heartache before healing."
5. What's the deal with Harris' mom? As if Ann's ex-husband wasn't bad enough on his own - seriously, how was Ann ever married to that guy? - Bobby learned that it was in fact Harris (Mitch Pileggi) and his mother Judith Ryland (Judith Light) who took Emma as a baby and raised her in secret. But why? "This is a little bit over the top, but the way I had pictured it was if Norman Bates turned that rocking chair around, if Norma Bates stood up. So that was the character," Cidre says of Judith. "It's not apparent yet in the early episodes of where all of that comes from, but by Episode 9 or 10, you start to get a little more backstory." Adds Cidre, "Emma is sort of the child they never had. It's a little sick sounding, but at its most basic, it's probably true."
Dallas remembers Larry Hagman with a new Season 2 mystery
6. How will the show say goodbye to J.R.? After the unfortunate passing of Larry Hagman in November, many of the questions surrounding Season 2 have been related to exactly how his character will go out this season and the aftermath of his death. "J.R. was such a delicious and iconic character that we couldn't just kill him by natural circumstances. It had to be bigger than that, and more fun that, and at the same time, it has to be emotional and a proper goodbye to both J.R. Ewing and Larry Hagman," Cidre says. "I think we came up with something pretty good. A little bit of it will be revealed in Episode 8, and then we will take the rest of the season to reveal a mystery."
Dallas airs Mondays at 9/8c on TNT.
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Cutts late to meeting on morning of Davis' death
The morning that authorities say Jessie M. Davis died, Bobby Cutts Jr. was 90 minutes late for a scheduled meeting with GlenOak High School officials to discuss a coaching position on the football staff.
Cutts was to meet at 9 a.m. June 14 with the school about coaching GlenOak this fall, but he didn't show up until about 10:30 a.m., a school official said.
"He was an hour and a half late Thursday, and an hour a half late seals your fate," said GlenOak athletics director Jim Adkins. "After he was late, and after (head coach Scott Garcia) talked to him, Coach Garcia didn't feel like he had what it takes to be a coach at GlenOak."
Adkins said he did not know if sheriff's deputies or the FBI interviewed Garcia about the meeting.
Davis was Cutts' pregnant girlfriend and the mother of his 2-year-old son Blake. She was last seen on the night of June 13, and her body was found Saturday in a shallow grave in Hampton Hills Metro Park in Summit County. Her nearly 9-month-old fetus, which she was to name Chloe, was in her body.
Cutts made his initial court appearance Monday on double murder charges and is being held in lieu of $5 million bail. A second suspect, Myisha Ferrell, was arraigned on obstruction of justice charges for hindering the investigation. Her bail is set at $500,000.
Cutts spent last season as a volunteer coach at Oakwood Middle School in the Plain Local School District. He graduated from GlenOak High School in 1995 and played football there.
During an interview last week with The Repository, Cutts made mention of not being able to coach because of the media attention in the case. He spoke about his love of coaching prior to the interview as well.
"He would never missed a coaching meeting and this was to maybe move up from the middle school" to coaching ninth grade, a source close to Cutts said.
"He never missed those meetings!"
The Repository spoke with a woman who had a sexual relationship with Cutts. She said Cutts phoned her several times from Champs, a local bar, the evening of June 13 and asked her to meet him there. Cutts left the bar about 12:30 a.m. June 14, and again phoned her at 2 a.m.. The woman – who requested anonymity because she is married with kids -- said she never met up with Cutts. Authorities have spoken with her as well.
The media camped out at Cutts' Ayrshire Avenue NE home from Wednesday through Saturday. Cutts left the home through a back door Friday and spent that night at a hotel, according to the source, who also said Cutts' mother, Renee Horne, and two other family members stayed with him.
When the four returned to Cutts' home Saturday, he met with a close circle of family and friends, and admitted to disposing of Davis' body, but not killing her, the source said.
Contacted Monday and asked about spending Friday in a hotel, Cutts' mother said, "I've got no comment," and hung up.


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Various exercises can strengthen your heart
Regular exercise is one of the basic ingredients for maintaining a healthy heart, but in this day and age where everything is drive-through, Web-accessible or technology-enabled, the need for human movement has diminished.
However sedentary our lifestyle lets us be, our bodies need activity to stay healthy. It is no good having all you need at your fingertips if your organs are unhealthy.
WebMD advocates cardiovascular exertion as the most effective exercise, with stretching and weight training playing a supporting role.
Always consult your health professional before undertaking any form of exercise.
Cardiovascular Activity
The Franklin Institute's Center for Innovation in Science Learning offers some tips to help on the road to heart health that can be incorporated into everyday life. These include taking the stairs instead of the elevator, parking as far as possible from your destination so that you have to walk and putting extra effort into housework to make it more strenuous.
While these tips are a good start, nothing beats a regular exercise routine, and it is important to choose something that you will enjoy so that you stay motivated to stick with. Good forms of cardiovascular exercise include swimming, which is an overall body workout and which really gets your heart pumping. Walking, when done with purpose, can be one of the most effective ways to keep your heart healthy. Running is well known for its overall health benefits and has a great impact on heart health in particular.
If you prefer to exercise at a gym there are always a great number of aerobic classes to choose from, including spinning, aerobics, Tae-bo and many more. You can also join a dance group and learn salsa or ballroom dancing, both of which are extremely good cardiovascular exercises and an added benefit is the social interaction that is an inherent part.
The American Heart Association advises that whichever option you choose, to be effective you must do it regularly, three to four times a week, for a minimum of 30 minutes and it must increase your heart rate for the duration. You can also break your exercise sessions down to 10 minutes three times a day, if necessary.
In order to ensure your muscles work to their best during aerobic exercise it is important to warm them up first, and this is where stretching comes in as a support exercise to aerobic activity. There are a number of different stretches you can do to target all the different muscle groups and WebMD offers some of the most effective ones to try.
Weight Training
The Franklin Institute says that while it is possible to attain a certain type of fitness with weight training, unless it is done in conjunction with aerobic exercise it will not have much of an impact on heart health.
It is therefore important to ensure that weight training is done in support of your cardiovascular exercise to ensure maximum benefits for your overall fitness as well as that of your heart.
According to the American Heart Association a lack of exercise is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke and is strongly linked to heart attacks.
The heart is a muscle and so, the stronger it is the more effective it will be in pumping blood around the body, improving oxygen transport and circulation. Also the more physical activity we do the better chance we have of lowering our blood pressure, and the less pressure there is on the heart the healthier it will be.
Physical activity gives us more energy to cope with our daily lives which means that we will feel less stress and thus reduce our chances of developing heart disease. So look after your heart by getting up and getting moving.


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Test Drive: 2017 Hyundai Elantra
Entry Price: $17,150
Price as Tested: $27,710
This week, we're driving the re-designed 2017 Hyundai Elantra, which starts at just $17,150 for the manual transmission SE and then rises up to our tester's entry of $22,350 in upper-class Limited Edition dress.
Now in its sixth-generation, Elantra has grown to mid-size dimensions since its debut as a compact in 1990. Back then, it rode on just a 98.4-inch wheelbase while today, Elantra moves smoothly around on a 106-inch plus wheelbase and is a true mid-size automobile.
Elantra by Hyundai also is one of the most popular consumer choices based on affordability, owner reliability and return on investment (ROI). Add the 10-year/100,000 mile powertrain warranty, and few cars on the road (other than corporate relative Kia) can sway prospective consumers in a direct side-by-side comparison.
Two new engines are available for 2017 and both are quite interesting. The engine in our Limited is a 2.0-liter Atkinson cycle engine that is the same engine used in numerous Hybrid applications. (Both Hyundai and Mazda are now utilizing these engines as sole producers of power).
Elantra's 2.0 engine produces just 147 horses and 132 lb. ft. of torque, but after a few long runs I found it hard to believe the engine is only a 147-horse, hybrid-friendly engine. It accelerates better than expected and generates 28 city and 37 highway EPA fuel mileage numbers coupled to the Limited's six-speed Shiftronic automatic.
The second engine is even smaller. It powers the new Elantra Eco model, which starts at $20,650. "Eco" features a new 1.4-liter turbocharged four-cylinder that is similar although somewhat smaller than the 1.7 turbo we just tested in the new Kia Optima a while back. Delivering 128 horses yet an impressive 156 lb. ft of torque, owners can expect 40-MPG highway from Elantra Eco while not lacking in the performance department thanks to the turbo boost.
Outwardly, our Limited Edition Elantra features a new, silky aerodynamic image along with a revamped amenity loaded leather interior. Standard features are many, including safety features like advanced stability control, blind-spot with rear cross traffic alerts, review safety camera with guidelines, four wheel ABS disc brakes, and all the airbags.
Our Limited featured two options, including a highly recommended $1,900 Ultimate Package that bolsters the safety factor up several steps. Included are lane-departure and lane-keep systems, automatic high-beam assist, smart cruise control, and the very desirable automatic emergency braking with pedestrian detection. There's more to this option and your dealer will gladly explain everything in layman's terms.
There is a caveat to the above option, however. This Ultimate Package is only available (at this time) on the Limited model and also necessitates purchasing a $2,500 Tech Option. The Tech Option adds eight-speaker Infinity stereo system with subwoofer, 8-inch touchscreen with navigation, heated front and rear seats, Android and Apple CarPlay, power sunroof, "Clar-fi" music restoration technology, special color instrumentation cluster, and auto dim rear view mirror. Thus if you want all of the safety features Elantra offers, it will actually cost you $4,400.
On the highway the Eco and Limited models feature a standard "Drive Mode Select," which is optional on the entry SE automatic. The Normal, Eco or Sport drive modes impact throttle response, shift points and steering input all at the touch of a button. I personally enjoy Sport mode for a more performance oriented drive. If you choose Eco, you're libel to better the MPG ratings, especially the city number. Overall, and regardless of drive mode, every Elantra offers a very comfortable ride for all passengers.
Underneath, Hyundai has tweaked the Elantra independent suspension a bit to allow better handling characteristics, especially in tighter turns. Elantra incorporates the industry standard coil over MacPherson front struts and a rear coupled torsion beam setup. Overall, Elantra delivers good handling when united with its 17-inch tires on lightweight alloy wheels.
Important numbers include a wheelbase of 106.3 inches, 5.3 inch ground clearance, 2,976 lb. curb weight, 14.4 cu. ft. of cargo space, and a 14-gallon fuel tank.
In summary, this new generation 2017 Elantra is on sale now at your area Hyundai dealer. Few competitors can match the ROI, so when it comes to spending your hard earned cash, Elantra is a better value than ever before.
Likes: New design, price, wonderful interior, engines, fuel economy.
Dislikes: Top safety equipment only available on Limited; option necessity concerning Ultimate Package, rear drum brakes on entry SE model.
— Greg Zyla writes weekly for More Content Now and other GateHouse Media publications. He welcomes reader questions at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Newtown sets up task force to handle donations
- Truck fulls of donations have been arriving daily
- The Newtown Volunteer Task Force will coordinate the efforts of more than 800 volunteers
- Volunteers will sort the donations and respond to calls and e-mails
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Chris Kelsey is the tax assessor in Newtown, but for the better part of three weeks, his job has been setting up and organizing a warehouse to hold the toys, school supplies and other gifts donated in the wake of the Dec. 14 massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Despite the town's pleas to stop sending gifts, Kelsey said trucks have been arriving daily with tokens of support from across the world, some for the families of the 20 children and six staffers killed, others for the children of Sandy Hook, still others for the town.
"A lot of the town's normal business is still on pause," he said. "I have a couple of people still doing assessor's business, and then if they can, open mail a couple hours too. We're all kind of doing what we can to get this done."
A task force has been set up to coordinate the more than 800 volunteers who have been working to sort the gifts, open mail and answer the thousands of e-mails and phone calls offering assistance.
The volunteers have begun making a dent in the pile of tens of thousands of teddy bears that stretched to the warehouse ceiling. By last week, they had sorted 30,000 of them into small, medium and large sizes, catalogued them and put them in boxes. They are also separating and boxing piles of crayons, pencils, books and much more.
"It's a ton of stuff, and we have an operation just as big for mail as well," Kelsey said.
There are also 26 large moving boxes in the warehouse, each labeled with a victim's name. When a gift comes in specifically addressed to those families, it goes in those boxes. The families have been coming in periodically to empty them.
A toy giveaway was held for all Newtown children before Christmas and some of the remaining toys and stuffed animals have been taken to children's hospitals. The rest will be stored until the town decides where they should go, Kelsey said. He said letters have been sent to each of the victim's families asking for their input. His cellphone is filled with e-mails from charities across the country.
"Everybody has a hand out," he said. "We're just beginning that process now. The charities suggested by the families will get the top priority."
The work organizing the warehouse is being done by volunteers from Adventist Community Services, a faith-based group that has done similar work after hurricanes and other natural disasters.
"Our thing is warehouses," said the Rev. William Warcholik, a pastor from Rhode Island. "Our specialty is collecting, organizing and distributing donated goods."
The group was paired with Kelsey after contacting the town's volunteer task force. Kevin and Robin Fitzgerald started the group last year to organize neighborhood cleanups following two storms that brought down trees all over town.
"We referred to it as friends with chain saws," Robin Fitzgerald said.
Immediately after the school massacre, which left 26 people dead, people started calling the Fitzgeralds looking for a way to help in the grief-stricken town. Local churches and businesses began getting similar calls.
After meeting with town officials, the Red Cross and other stakeholders, the Fitzgeralds were put in charge of coordinating the volunteer effort.
They started working in their living room with a couple of cellphones and their own laptop computers. Local businessman Peter D'Amico gave them office space. Companies donated computers, Wi-Fi, phones and other equipment and set up a call center. The Newtown Volunteer Task Force now has a website, a Facebook page, a Twitter account and a toll-free telephone number, (855) 364-6600, with eight lines coming in.
"Our mission here is to ease the burden on the town resources, matching people who feel the need to do something with a task that needed to be done," Kevin Fitzgerald said. "This is work FEMA or someone in government would do after a natural disaster, but there is no such thing for this kind of disaster."
The group has been deploying about 800 volunteers to open the town's mail, work at the warehouse and connect potential donations with the correct fund or organization.
Liz Eaton, 70, who lives in the village of Sandy Hook, was sent to the warehouse to help box bears.
"People at church have said they needed some help," she said. "And I just wanted to help out."
Others are tasked with returning every phone call that has come into the town offering help.
"We had someone offer 26 granite benches for any memorial," Robin Fitzgerald said. "That's put into a list of what we call escalated offers, so we mark that down and when they decide on a memorial they will know about that offer."
The town originally expected it would take the task force about two weeks to complete its work. The Fitzgeralds said the task force now expects to be working for about three months, possibly longer.
"What we're telling people on the phone now is that if you are holding a fundraiser in your local community, we appreciate it, but direct those resources to your local community, that's what the families want," Robin Fitzgerald said. "About 99.5% of the time that works. But the other half says, 'We're coming anyway.' And then we just give them the address of the warehouse or here."


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Brian McManus is on Twitter @B_rie and blogs here.
Editor's note: We had several people contact us about Hacking SJSU and we thank you all for that. This is Brian's experience and we would love to hear about your experiences (positive, critical, neutral, etc) below in the comments. Because SJSU is such a large, growing and diverse program, we value input from other students! – Heidi
Disclaimer: These are my personal opinion and are not representative of the student body, San Jose State University (SJSU), or the School of Library and Information Sciences (SLIS). Any criticism is meant to be constructive and for the betterment of the program.
I was accepted to all of the University of Arizona's, Florida State University's, and San Jose State University's SLIS programs. I needed a program that allowed me to continue to work full-time as library Staff at Washington State University, had a large and robust Web presence, and did not have a mandatory residency requirement attached to its distance program. For example the University of Arizona required an 11 day stay at the beginning of a student's course work; this was my "backup" school.
SJSU's SLIS program allowed for my criteria; that is why I chose them.
General Overview
San Jose State University's SLIS program is the largest ALA accredited library school in the world, which I was not aware of before I began writing this post. The SLIS curriculum is implemented and provided completely through the online format, using both synchronous (communicating in real time) and asynchronous (not communicating in real time) methods, tools, and technologies.
SLIS serves approximately 3,000 graduate students from within the state of California, the U.S., U.S. territories, and other countries. I have had the opportunity through the program to be classmates with students from Guam and Australia. It was a unique experience I am not sure I would have gotten anywhere else.
The program delivers the curriculum through the D2L (Desire to Learn) Learning Management System (LMS). As recently as the Spring 2011 semester the SLIS program was using ANGEL, however it has now completed its transition to D2L for its summer courses and into the future.
SJSU SLIS offers several different types of programs. There is the MLIS, the MARA, and the San Jose Gateway Ph.D. programs. As you have no doubt already correctly guessed, MLIS is the SLIS program's Master's of Library and Information Sciences degree. The MARA program is the Master's of Archives and Records Administration, which is for students interested in working with archives and emerging electronic records and digital asset management … yes, that is directly from the MARA Web site. The San Jose Gateway Ph.D. Program is an external Ph.D. program due to the nature of SJSU being limited by the state legislature to only offer master's degree level education to students. By partnering with Queensland University of Technology in Australia, SJSU is able to offer a doctoral degree in library sciences to a small group.
In 2009, the SJSU SLIS program was ranked 22 by U.S. News and World Report.
Courses and Pathways
The program requires each student to complete four core courses which act as prerequisites to many of the succeeding courses in the program. The first is an introductory technology course that needs to be completed within the first two semesters called Online Social Networking: Technology Tools, It's a one credit course and acts as an excellent introduction to using the different technologies and software each student will need to know to successfully complete their program. This course has a shortened time frame to complete and is not taken for an entire semester. Some students complete this course during the summer or winter intersessions. The other four core courses are Information and Society, Information Retrieval, and Information Organizations and Management. A complete description of each of these courses can be found on the course description web page.
The School of Information Sciences offers a multitude of career pathways to choose from: Academic Librarianship; Digital Services and Emerging Technologies; Information Intermediation and Instruction; Information Organization, Description, Analysis, and Retrieval; Leadership and Management; Management, Digitization, and Preservation of Cultural Heritage and Records; Public Librarianship; Special Librarianship; Teacher Librarianship; Web Programming and information Architecture; and Youth Librarianship.
The course work is not easy and can be challenging at times, even if a student is attending part-time. As mentioned above, courses are delivered via the D2L LMS. Knowing and understanding how to effectively communicate with your classmates and professors using the LMS is extremely important. Most of the courses I have taken have followed a similar format, with the exception of a couple seminar courses that were either more or less structured. For instance, the advanced reference course where I was an embedded librarian for a distance graduate course at the University Central Missouri. This course was loosely structured so that my teammates and I could develop library literacy and other helpful content requested by the instructor.
Discussion boards for readings, assignments, and projects are extremely helpful. With only a couple of exceptions, all of my professors have been active in the conversations and discussions, which adds a considerable amount of learning and perspective to the learning environment.
Lastly, courses are added and dropped using the SLIS's MySJSU. Once admitted to the program, each student has an account they can login to that helps them manage their student account, including classes and finances. Many administrative emails from SJSU are communicated via this system. It is helpful to set up your email notifications to your personal email so that you do not miss these messages.
Financial Aid/Scholarships/Assistantships
The financial aid services provided by SJSU are mainly the same as those provided by other large state universities. There is not necessarily a great deal of red tape involved with receiving financial aid once you are admitted and once you register for classes. The key to this and many other graduate programs is to maintain a good academic standing within your coursework and to meet the minimum requirements for course load. SJSU's SLIS program requires its students to maintain a 3.0 overall GPA while in the program and to be at least half-time, which translates to taking 4 credit hours per semester. Since all but one of the classes are 3 credits, students who wish to receive financial aid must take 6 credit hours per semester.
There are multiple scholarships available for students in the SLIS program that can help with the costs of attending SJSU. The SLIS program maintains their own list and SJSU has a more general list.
Per credit cost of the SLIS program for distance students (special session) can be found here.
Per credit cost of the SLIS program for CA students (regular session) can be found here.
Student assistantships ($/hour) are also available through the program. The type of work ranges greatly from writing and researching in specific areas of study to working as a student peer trainer. These are wonderful opportunities for some hands on experience while getting paid and supplementing a student's income or lessening their cost of attendance. Since this is the largest SLIS program in the country, there are many opportunities for assistantships.
Being affiliated with and a part of the SLIS program provides for some benefits. One of these are the internship resources. As part of the graduate experience, students are encouraged to locate and complete an internship if they do not have library experience already. SJSU's SLIS program has an internship database that lists internships in the United States and abroad. Students may gain credit towards their degree by enrolling in an internship designated class, LIBR 294, as well.
There are opportunities for student involvement within the SJSU SLIS program. There is the ALASC, American Library Association Student Chapter, which organizes social events near the SJSU campus and promotes professional development among other events. There is also a student administered professional development society called ASIS&T (American Society of Information Science & Technology). In addition to these, every student admitted to the SLIS program is automatically a member to the LISSTEN (Library & Information Science Students to Encourage Networking) group, which is another group to promote and encourage professional development and networking within the program. Also, the LISSTEN group has a blog called the Call Number, which invites students to make contributions. Another blog and opportunity for students to publish their work or perspective and edited by fellow students called the SLIS Descriptor. There are many opportunities for students to be involved, network, and post their perspectives.
Why Prospective Students Should Consider SJSU's SLIS Program
The SLIS program at SJSU is robust, flexible, and geared towards the student's overall success. The program's course offerings are immense and from what I've seen students never have trouble registering for the core classes. The administration will add courses as needed and work with students to get them into the classes they need (I'm sure there are those that will disagree and have a negative story, but I have never had a problem. Just make sure you register on the first day of registration and follow all the steps. This seems to hang-up a significant number of people.)
The program is geared towards both students who want and can go full-time and those that need to work full-time and attend courses part-time. Also, student advisors are embedded into the LMS (Learning Management Software) so that you have access to them just like you would for your other courses. This makes it extremely easy to email your advisor and post questions that other students may also know the answers to via discussion posts/rooms.
There are many great opportunities for SLIS students become involved in their profession and at varying levels. Students have their choice of assistantships, networking within the student organizations, and publishing their class projects or sharing their unique perspective on multiple blogs. These and others are opportunities for professional development and exposure to aspects of librarianship and the information sciences profession that can only enrich and further each student's career.
Finally, SJSU's SLIS program hosts lecture series, colloquia, and other professional development series throughout each semester via web casts and other streaming technologies.
Weakness/Room to Grow On
From my perspective, there are not many areas of the program that I can identify as having a weakness. I think all programs could use more faculty and increase their course offerings, however I have never thought to myself, "Why doesn't SLIS offer class XYZ." Perhaps some of my fellow SJSU SLISers can chime in and share their thoughts on our program.
Hacking SJSU's SLIS Program
Stay organized: Make sure all your accounts with the program are sending notifications or forwarding content to one central location so you do not have to check multiple emails and accounts to stay in the loop. Also, sign-in to the D2L LMS every day and keep up with all your class discussion posts.
Take an active role in one or more of the student associations and groups within the program. You can never start networking or getting involved too soon.
If you are not already gaining actual library experience, take advantage of the SLIS internship database and resources.
Check the SLIS homepage for updates on upcoming colloquia series, conference SLIS will have a booth at, and program sponsored webinars and professional development opportunities.
Final Grade
I am grading the SJSU SLIS program as an A. I would give it an +A, however let's be honest, no program is perfect. However, this one is pretty close. I would also like to add, that this is an up and coming program, which I feel is underrated, with much forward momentum. Its faculty are dynamic and well-known in the information professional field, faculty members such as Meredith Farkas (widely known as a Web 2.0 guru) and Michael Stevens (writer of the poplar library blog Tame the Web). Coupled with a large number of faculty and course offerings, this program is more than adequately equipped to produce information professionals of high caliber and help take libraries positively into the future.
Thanks for reading and I look forward to your thoughts and comments.
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SJSJ SLIS Hompage
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Human Rights: Egyptian military shot dead 51 Morsi supporters in Cairo
July 08, CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian soldiers and police clashed with Islamists protesting the military's ouster of the president in bloodshed that left at least 42 protesters dead, officials and witnesses said, and plunged the divided country deeper into crisis with calls by the Muslim Brotherhood's political party for all-out rebellion against the army.
The carnage outside the Republican Guard building in Cairo — where toppled President Mohammed Morsi was first held last week — marked the single biggest death toll since massive protests forced Morsi's government from power and brought in an interim civilian administration.
Even before all the bodies were counted, with more than 300 wounded, there were conflicting accounts on how the violence began. Morsi's backers said the troops attacked their encampment without provocation just after dawn prayers. The military said it came under a heavy assault first by gunmen who killed an army officer and two policemen.
The violence is almost certain to draw sharper battle lines between Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, who say the military has carried out a coup against democracy, and their opponents, who claim Morsi squandered his 2012 election victory and was wrecking democracy by bolstering his and the Brotherhood's grip on the state.
Egypt's top Muslim cleric warned of "civil war" and said he was going into seclusion as a show of protest to both sides until the violence ends. Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb, head of Al-Azhar Mosque, said he had "no choice" but to seclude himself at home "until everyone shoulders his responsibility to stop the bloodshed instead of dragging the country into civil war."
Soon after the attack, the Al-Nour party, an ultraconservative Islamist party that had been talking to the new government about participating in the political process, announced it was withdrawing its support for the transition plan in response to the "massacre."
The military, which removed Morsi on Wednesday after mass protests against him, now may face pressures to impose stricter security measures to try to keep unrest from spilling out of control. It will also have to produce compelling evidence to support its version of events or otherwise suffer what is already shaping to be a Brotherhood media blitz to portray the military as a brutal institution with little regard for human life or democratic values.
The escalating chaos will also further complicate Egypt's relations with Washington and other Western allies, which had supported Morsi as the country's first freely elected leader and now are reassessing policies toward the military-backed group that forced him out.
In a move that is likely to further inflame the situation, the Freedom and Justice party, the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm, called on Egyptians to rise up against the army. Morsi has been a longtime leader of the Brotherhood.
The party also called on the international community to stop what it called the massacres in Egypt and accused the military of pushing Egypt toward civil war, warning the country was in danger of becoming a "new Syria."
"The only thing the military understands is force and they are trying to force people into submission," said Marwan Mosaad, speaking at a field hospital run by Morsi's supporters. "It is a struggle of wills and no one can predict anything."
Pro-reform leader Mohamed ElBaradei also condemned the violence and called for an investigation, writing on Twitter that "peaceful transition the only way." The Morsi supporters had been camped out for days at the site in tents around a mosque near the Republican Guard complex, where Morsi was initially held but was later moved to an undisclosed Defense Ministry facility.
Spokesmen for the military and police gave a nationally televised press conference to give their version of the morning's bloodshed. Army Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said police and troops guarding the Republican Guard complex came under "heavy gunfire" at 4 a.m. and attackers on rooftops opened fire with guns and molotov cocktails. He said one army officer and two police officers were killed, with 42 injured, eight critically.
He underlined that the troops had the right to defend the installation and that the protest "was no longer peaceful." He pointed out that suspected Islamists have carried out coordinated armed attacks on several military facilities in recent days in the Sinai Peninsula.
One witness, university student Mirna el-Helbawi, also said gunmen loyal to Morsi opened fire first, including from the roof of a nearby mosque. El-Helbawi, 21, lives in an apartment overlooking the scene.
Supporters of Morsi, however, said the security forces fired on hundreds of protesters, including women and children, at the sit-in encampment as they performed early morning prayers. "They opened fire with live ammunition and lobbed tear gas," said Al-Shaimaa Younes, who was at the sit-in. "There was panic and people started running. I saw people fall."
A Muslim Brotherhood spokesman, Mourad Ali, denied any Morsi supporters fired first andsaid the military had warned protesters it will break up the sit-in. Abu Ubaida Mahmoud, a religion student from Al-Azhar University, said he had been praying when the sit-in's security teams began banging on metal barricades in warning. He then saw troops coming out of the Guard complex.
"The number of troops that came from inside was stunning," said Mahmoud, who was wounded in the hand. The troops opened fire and "I saw injuries in the chest, the neck, the head and the arm," he said.
A guard at a nearby bank said security forces first moved in on the encampment firing tear gas, then he heard gunfire, though who couldn't tell who was firing. He said that over recent days the Morsi protesters had imposed their control on the surrounding district and were clearly armed.
At field hospitals set up Morsi supporters, at least six dead bodies were shown laid out on the ground, some with severe wounds, in video aired by Al-Jazeera TV. The bodies had been draped with an Egyptian flag and pictures of Morsi. Pools of blood covered the floor and doctors struggled to deal with gaping wounds among some of the hundreds injured.
Health Ministry spokesman Khaled el-Khatib said initial reports indicated at least 42 fatalities and 322 people wounded. One police officer was also killed, the military's spokesman said. Egyptian state TV showed images provided by the military of the scene of the sit-in amid the melee. Dozens of protesters were shown pelting troops with rocks and setting tires on fire. Soldiers in riot gear and carrying shields formed lines a few meters (yards) away.
A fire raged from an apartment in a building overlooking the clashes. Images showed men throwing spears from atop nearby building rooftops. Other protesters were lobbing fire bombs at the troops. It was not clear at what stage in the melee the footage was filmed. Security officers were showing cameras bullet casings, and troops were carrying injured colleagues.
By the afternoon, troops moved in and cleared the sit-in site and blockades on the road. The site of the early morning clashes, a strip of road about a kilometer long (about half a mile), was covered with rocks, shattered glass, shoes, clothes, prayer rugs and personal photographs. A big Morsi banner remained hoisted in front of the Republican Guards' building. On the ground below it, graffiti read: "Where are our votes?"
Interim President Adly Mansour called for restraint and ordered a judicial inquiry into the killings. Significantly, the statement from his office echoed the military's version of events, noting that the killings followed an attempt to storm the Republican Guard's headquarters.
Prosecutors in Cairo also ordered the closure of the Brotherhood party's headquarters amid investigations into a cache of weapons found there, according to the official Middle East News Agency. El-Tayeb, the sheik of Al-Azhar also called for an independent investigation into the shooting and for the release of all those detained in recent days, referring to five Brotherhood leaders detained since Morsi's fall.
Morsi supporters have been holding rallies and a sit-in outside the Republican Guard building and elsewhere around Cairo since the military deposed Morsi on Wednesday. The military chief replaced Morsi with an interim president until presidential elections are held. The transition plan is backed by liberal and secular opponents of Morsi, and had been also supported by the ultraconservative Islamist Al-Nour party and both Muslim and Christian religious leaders.
Al-Nour party spokesman Nader Bakkar said on his Twitter account his party is withdrawing its support for the transition plan in response to the "massacre." Morsi's supporters refuse to recognize the change in leadership and insist Morsi be reinstated, and have vowed to continue their sit-ins outside the Republican Guard building as well as at a nearby mosque.
Morsi's opponents are also holding rival rallies. They say the former president lost his legitimacy by mismanaging the country and not ruling democratically, leading to a mass revolt that began June 30, the first anniversary of Morsi's assumption of power.
Press journalist for HRO media – Khizer Hayat reports from Cairo.
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Maine mall sacks Santa after rudeness complaints
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine - A mall in Maine has sacked Santa Claus after children and parents complained he was rude, grumpy and wouldn't even let one child sit on his lap.
Officials at the Maine Mall in South Portland say they're looking for a jollier Santa and hope to have him in place Thursday.
Jessica Mailhiot and her 6-year-old daughter, Chantel, went to see Santa this week. They tell WGME-TV (http://bit.ly/RpPkak ) he was rude and wouldn't let the girl sit on his lap when they said they didn't want to buy a $20 photo.
Chantel says when she asked Santa for an American Girl doll, he replied she'd get an "American football."
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In the sport of high-altitude mountaineering, Chris Boskoff earned her stripes by simply shutting up and climbing.On December 4, 2006, Boskoff, 39, and Charlie Fowler, 52, failed to return on their flight to the United States from China.
In the sport of high-altitude mountaineering, Chris Boskoff earned her stripes by simply shutting up and climbing.
On December 4, 2006, Boskoff, 39, and Charlie Fowler, 52, failed to return on their flight to the United States from China. After guiding Cho Oyu, Boskoff had joined Fowler and traveled to the Sichuan Province, in China, to climb 6,000-meter peaks. Both were exceptionally strong climbers, who survived even the most unbelievable scrapes with death, but when their e-mails stopped and they missed their flights, their friends and family began to fear the worst. Funds were quickly raised for a search party, and on December 27, searchers found a body buried in the snow at 5,300 meters, about three hours above the Lenggu Monastery, in the Genyen region of China. The following day it was confirmed to be that of Charlie Fowler. Boskoff remains missing.
When meeting Boskoff, a strong, short blonde with a dynamic smile, you wouldn't imagine she was one of the most accomplished high-altitude mountain climbers in the world. And she was much like Fowler in that if you met her at a party, you'd have to pursue her like a dogged journalist to get much out of her. Although Boskoff was beginning to receive media attention for her climbing accomplishments, she was always understated and prosaic.
"I'm not into designer mountaineering, designer beer, designer friendships, or the big-bucks sponsorship deals," she said. "I simply want to push myself mentally and physically. I want to have fun, and for me that means the mountains.
Boskoff reached the summit of six 8,000-meter peaks, more than any other American woman: Mount Everest, Shishapangma, Gasherbrum II, Broad Peak and Cho Oyu twice. She also attempted the notorious 8,000-meter K2, in Pakistan, but was turned away by ghastly weather.
Christine Joyce Field learned tenacity and self-reliance at an early age. Raised in Appleton, Wisconsin, Chris became used to being a girl in a guy's world as she tried to keep up with her older bothers. She put herself through the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, where she was one of only a few female engineering students.
"They used to rib me," she said. "You know, blonde hair and engineering. It was fun breaking the mold! "
After her 1991 graduation, she landed a job at Lockheed in Atlanta. In 1993, she took her first climbing course, and climbed her first mountain, Tariji in Bolivia. In Atlanta, she began climbing at a local indoor gym, where she met Keith Boskoff, a successful architect (and 15 years her senior), who swept her off her feet and into the world of climbing.
They married in 1997.
That same year, Boskoff became the first American woman to climb Lhotse. In December, the Boskoffs purchased Mountain Madness, which had been owned by Scott Fischer, who died on Everest in 1996. In January 1999, after a great deal of stress and struggle, and just as the Madness was beginning to turn around, Keith Boskoff died. Suddenly, the most emotionally supportive person in her life was gone, and Boskoff was thrown into turmoil. In private, she once admitted that the pain of losing her husband taught her more than climbing all 14 8,000-meter peaks twice could have.
Over the years, Boskoff grew exponentially in spirit and strength. She often talked about the mind-body synergy that hope, love, enthusiasm, drive and warm relationships create in one's life. She was an inspiration to many, a great love and friend to Charlie and she will be sorely missed.


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Quality on a good day: 4.0
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Consistency of Surf: 2.0
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